
The world’s poorest countries are getting poorer when it comes to expanding global foreign aid spending, shows new data from…
The world’s poorest countries are getting poorer when it comes to expanding global foreign aid spending, shows new data from…
A leading aid and development expert is challenging a popular claim made by Bill and Melinda Gates, health statistics wizard…
It’s hard to actually follow the advice of the slogan to “Visualize World Peace.” But below is a pretty cool…
That, in a nutshell, was the question posed to a panel of microfinance experts at a Seattle forum earlier this…
The anti-poverty scheme known as microfinance is in crisis, or maybe several crises. The political sacking of Muhammad Yunus as…
Update as of Friday afternoon: Still not clear. Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winning economist who created the anti-poverty…
The popular anti-poverty scheme of providing small loans and other financial services to poor people, generally known as microfinance, is…
There is a crisis in the anti-poverty scheme microfinance, centered in India but reverberating globally. I posted on the local…
The debate about microfinance in India is not really about whether or not it’s in crisis or at risk of…
As loyal readers of this blog know, I’ve been watching and reporting on the increasing turmoil in the Indian microfinance…